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It was not often that she allowed her thoughts to tempt her to idleness, for experience had taught her that they were apt to lead far away from the straight grey road of the Actual into the shadowy realms of Might-Have-Been, and along paths paved with pain and bordered with regret.
Then some "big people" collected the fragments to cast them into the pot once more. Dr. Leonard added another might-have-been and a new sigh to the secret chamber of his soul. But his face was turned outward to receive the next scheme. This time it happened to be a wonderful new process of evolving gas from dirt and city refuse.
"A bit demoralising at midday," Lance murmured without conviction. "Well, I am demoralised; dead damned done for. I'm about to be honoured with a blooming medical certificate to that effect. As a soldier, I'm extinct from this time forth for evermore. You see before you the wraith of a Might-Have-Been. After that gold-medal exhibition of inanity, kindly produce said pegs!"
It's all right, little girl; it is all right. I believe things are going to be brighter for you now." "Thanks to you, Hugh!" "You know there is nothing in this world " He looked down at the lovely face, alive with gratitude and happiness. His dreams were ended, the "might-have-been" would never be, but he knew that there was peace in that little breast at last. Mr.
And save me from these ugly beasts who ramp and rage Around me all day long beasts fell and sore Envy, and Hate, and Calumny! do thou assuage Their impious mouths, O splendid Love, and floor Their hideous tactics, and their noisome spleen, Withering to dust the awful "Might-Have-Been!"" "Goodness! 'Howls the Sublime' indeed!" thought Doris, gurgling with laughter in the passage.
"Very well, Roger," she said quietly. "If knowing everything you still want me . . . I'll marry you." And as his arms closed round her, crushing her in his embrace, she seemed to hear a distant sound like the closing of a door the door of the forbidden might-have-been.
Weaving into the Unseen Tidings of the Might-have-Been." "What do you do for companionship?" asked Philippa presently. "Don't you find it a little lonely here sometimes?" "Yes, I am lonely sometimes. There is no use in denying it," answered Isabella. "But I am not more lonely here than I should be anywhere else.
His words reminded me of what Goethe had said about himself: in each of the ten years he spent on his "Theory of Light" he could have written a couple of plays as good as his best. The land of Might-have-been is peopled with these gorgeous shadow-shapes. Oscar had already found his public, a public capable of appreciating the very best he could do.
So here I am. And I won't deny," she confessed with her habitual candour, "that it did occur to me that I might have cared for you as a lover had I not been married. But of course the thought did not disturb me. It was merely a passing glimpse of a might-have-been. When one has a husband one must be loyal to him, even in thought, whatever terms we are on."
But all this time it was only as a might-have-been that she thought of loving him, as one who feels himself mortally sick thinks of what he might have done when he was well, as a life-convict thinks of what he might have done when free, as a disembodied spirit might think of what it might have done when living.
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